Guest guest Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 thank you sandi for your thoughts and prayers..... right now i feel over whelmed and not wanting to get this surgery done. there are so many mixed emotions going thru me right now...as well as my husband feels uneasy about the whole thing. maybe its just the anxiety before surgery....in any case i just wish it wasnt on my mind all the time. i will keep you posted when i get home from the hospital......thank you for being there for me.... karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 Hi , I can only imagine what you and your husband are going through right now. You've made a huge decision that will affect the rest of your life. If you are scared, I sure don't blame you one bit. I know I would be. I'm only 38, and the surgery you are facing might be my only option later on. I wish you the very best of luck. I sure hope your husband is very helpful and considerate so you'll be able to relax as much as possible after surgery. Just wanted to let you know you have my thoughts and prayers from snowy Thunder Bay also :-) All the best, . Re: cindy(sandi) thank you sandi for your thoughts and prayers..... right now i feel over whelmed and not wanting to get this surgery done. there are so many mixed emotions going thru me right now...as well as my husband feels uneasy about the whole thing. maybe its just the anxiety before surgery....in any case i just wish it wasnt on my mind all the time. i will keep you posted when i get home from the hospital......thank you for being there for me.... karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 , You will be in my prayers tonight. I hope that you will be able to trust in your future and find peace about your decision soon. The day you go into surgery we could all wear yellow ribbons! It would be nice if we all lived in one place. But if that many achalasians all lived in one place, everyone else would probably move out for fear they'd catch it. Ha! They'd think it was something in the water we were all guzzling! Well, at least this online group feels like someone is just in the next room sometimes. I know the people in this group were a true lifeline to me when I was so frightened of my surgery. One day I just decided to let go of my fear and trust the Dr. and God. It worked for me. I hope you can find peace soon. Hugs, in Houston > Hi , > > I can only imagine what you and your husband are going through right now. You've made a huge decision that will affect the rest of your life. If you are scared, I sure don't blame you one bit. I know I would be. I'm only 38, and the surgery you are facing might be my only option later on. I wish you the very best of luck. I sure hope your husband is very helpful and considerate so you'll be able to relax as much as possible after surgery. > > Just wanted to let you know you have my thoughts and prayers from snowy Thunder Bay also :-) > > All the best, > . > Re: cindy(sandi) > > > thank you sandi for your thoughts and prayers..... > right now i feel over whelmed and not wanting to get this surgery done. > there are so many mixed emotions going thru me right now...as well as my > husband feels uneasy about the whole thing. > maybe its just the anxiety before surgery....in any case i just wish it wasnt > on my mind all the time. > i will keep you posted when i get home from the hospital......thank you for being there for me.... > karen > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 , I too understand your hesitation. I had those feelings before I had my myotomy!!! I went into it with no knowledge of what to expect. (I hadn’t found my A family yet for support) :-( All I know is that from what I have read from members here who have had esophagectomies, I feel less afraid from having read the experiences, and if I ever do have to have my E removed, I think I will be ok with that. It helps of course knowing that my surgeon is a master of laparoscopic surgery and he does esophagectomies laparoscopically. I don’t think it’s something that any of us want to think about, but still, the thought is not too far from the surface. I think you have to go with your instincts. You know what you need to do. You are young and have a long life ahead of you. For me, I think it would depend on how sick I was, and how much difficulty I was having eating, along with that, you have to weigh the risk of getting cancer from having food sitting in your esophagus for so long. It’s also a decision of now or later, and weighing out the quality of life you could be having as a result of having the esophagectomy vs. your quality of life at the present. I do think you can go on living a relatively normal life after having an esophagectomy. It doesn’t seem like it would be too much different from having a myotomy in the sense that you have to rely on gravity and water to get the food down…but it would be the recovery that would be difficult to deal with, however that goes along with most invasive surgeries. Well, whatever decision you make, I’m sure it will be the right one for you…And hopefully, like said, if you have a helpful and considerate husband, that would be really, truly wonderful! Wish we could all be there for you too to give you those hugs in person! Take Care, Sandi Re: cindy(sandi) thank you sandi for your thoughts and prayers..... right now i feel over whelmed and not wanting to get this surgery done. there are so many mixed emotions going thru me right now...as well as my husband feels uneasy about the whole thing. maybe its just the anxiety before surgery....in any case i just wish it wasnt on my mind all the time. i will keep you posted when i get home from the hospital......thank you for being there for me.... karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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